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;LOCAL NEWS The Jast telephone wire in the city i) down ‘sprawling on the ground, ind also a few of the electric wires. Mr. Pentzer is having curbing put 1 preparatory to macadamizing North Main in front of his furniture re. ©:2 We have had second class summer _ ll winter and now it looks as though .se are to have first class winter in the spring. Uur telephone Doctor, George Burcham, will have plenty to do now the Phones are all down with the sleet. They have it badly, too. The agony is over at last. The bill pensioning Mrs. Garfield passed the House of Representatives at Washington on yesterday morning. Nick Jeter saved himself from con- siderable damage to his stock of jew- elry by shoveling snow all day Sun- “day. There’sno rest for the wick- Ge cd you know, Nick. Mr. Barada says he sustained a loss of two hundred dollars by the sleet Sunday in consequence of the roof to his business house leaking. We are sorry for you, Sam. Saturday last was a busy day in hoss Pace’s office. About six tei- lows signified their intention of tum- bling to cupid’s racket this week. Go it, ye cripples. Pass the cake, please. There was a sociable at the resi- dence of Mr. H. C. Wyatt’s on Ft. Scott street Friday eve. There were quite a number of young ladies and gentlemen present who enjoyed them- A selves very much, Accident At Bich Hill. , ‘A brakeman on a Missouri Pacific train at Rich Hill, was run over by the cars at 10 o’clock Saturday last, and had one foot and an arm cut eff, besides sustaining some injuries on the head. Walton donates twenty acres of land to the insane asylum and Pace obligates himself that North Main will furnish one-fourth of the amount of money asked for by Dr. Lee.— Now can’t the balauce of our people make up the remainder? We think they can. We know they can. Now get to work. In the Probate Court on Friday the following business was transact- ed. The Judge heard three claims against estates and allowed the same. Two settlements of curators and : one of administrator and one sale of 4 real estate by guardian approved.— The court adjouraed until this morn- ing to g o'clock. H | / i | What in the world is the matter up in Kansas City? Has the bad red | eye given out? Only three drunks | reported yesterday morning, and not | a murder for some weeks. That! won’t do. The gate city is surely asleep Come wake up and shake the dew dropsand get up a sensation. | pee tae Sa Ra { Elsewhere in the Tres to-day | will he seen the professional card of | Dr. R.S Kelso, who has recently | located in practice in this city. His | office is over the post office on North Main street. We find the Dr. a very clever and agreeable gentleman, and | his standing as a physician was well estabhshed before he came among us. We wish for his success. a ae Dr. lee met anumber oi our prom- inent citizens Friday night at the law | office of John T. Smith, Esq., to confer with them in reference to the locating of an asylum at Butler. The said if the people of Butler would donate two thousand dollars he would Je locate the asylum here, it a situation | could be iound. It bered that Mr. W. E. Watton vro- j »osed to donate twenty acres of land i: 3. wil] be remem- to the Dr. for that purpose a short ago. The Dr... MroW \ and John T. Smith 1 go out to- day to view the land and ascertain if | it be adapted to the purpose for w hich | the Dr. We trust it i and that our people will go ahead and raise the money the Dr. asks for. pared with the benefits that would result from the location of the insti- tution in our town, to it and the sur- try. me v wants it. ay, The amuunt is small com-" : i ».\.. wounding coun! | Colorado ina few wee try. It has played havock with the timber, fruit and shade It looks as though a cyclone had passed through the country. trees. The damage done to the shade, fruit and shrubbery trees in the city and Sunday The sidewalks by the sleet of Sunday night is irreparable. in many places are completely block- aded by the fallen limbs Mr. Sowers’ arrival in the city, the new baker and contectioner from St. Louis, who rented a housein the Edwards block and which is being now handsomely fitted up, is delayed on account of sickness in his tamily. But little business transacted in the Probate court on Saturday last. Two settlements with administrators and the rejection of one claim against the estate of J. A. Dickey; whercupon the court adjourned until this morn- ing to 9 o’clock. It was told us as a secret, so don’t runand tell we told you, that a certain Rey. gentleman who has occupied a pulpit in this city often of late, and a lady of the Hill, are soon to be united in wedlock and become per- manent fixtures as citizens and mem- bers of Butler society. Too much praise cannot be be- stowed on Prof. Starr and his as- sistants for the manner in which our public schools are conducted. They are loved and respected by their pu- pils. Patroné ought to encourage and aid those educators by their presence atthe public exercises of the schools. Meeting Recalled. Ep. Dairy Times:—Please an- nounce that there will be no more service at the Dakota street Metho- dist church until Wednesday evening 22d inst at the hour of 7 o’clock.— This is made necessary by the clemency of the weather. Jxo. p. Woon, Pastor. in- Oh darling, said » doting mother to her daughter the other morning, you look so badly, what can be the matter with you? Why ma, said the lovely damsel, you see, I fell in love and it didn’t take well, and IT s*pose T’ll have to do like the folks that gets yaccinated, if it don’t take well the first time, try it again. Bathe your head, my child, said the mother. Now that we are to have a cigar manufactory. We trust our people will bestow more attention in the fu- ture than in the past upon the build- ing up of manufactories, it is to their best interest that they should do so. In importance this great interest ranks next to agriculture. No city, no state, no nation, can every become great without manufacturies. The abundance of coal has exploded the old idea that water power was neces- | sary to the sucessful running of man- ufactu.ing establishments. We have plenty of coal, now let us utilize some of it in that way. The following lines were handed us this morning for publication by one of Butler’s most gifted poets, and is very appropriate, we think, to the change m the weather: Our vernal days have all gone by, The robbin ceased his round to-day, Thefweather-cock is ona high, And Vennor’s taking holiday. “The forest city’s glazed with sleet: The trees are breaking down with ice; Young spring has beat a sad retreat, And winter holds us in his vice. Yet sick is lite, these latter days, se breeze. Our hearts are tuned to sweetest maise, is us oft a vernal But ere we sing there comes a freeze. Womans Experience. Mot ghters should y oppres- ir quick re The newly ‘married couple ieave for to remain. Bateos. ee BELT—Near Butler, Bates county, Mo., after.a‘long illness, Walter: Belt, aged fourteen months and ten days. Theangle of death comm Came down with a noiseless wing, And plucked for the garden of God above A_ priceless blossom of spring. This is the heaviest sleet that ever was known in this part of the coun- feel al-} joned in love, } Personal. —W. W. Ross has returned from ’ St. Louis. —Mr. William Griggs, one of Shawnee’s best farmers, called on the Tues Saturday and says he’s over | half done his spring plowing. | —Mr. M. S. Cowles and Col. Ed | Brown were in the queen city of the Southwest on They say the Hill is all lively. —Mr. B. F. Flora returned Fri- day evening from Cass county, where | he has been visiting friends and rela- tives. Glad you are back, Frank. —The Rev. Mr. Brown returned from Montrose this morning, Satur- day, where he has been attending a protracted meeting. one. —Mr. Leonard Totty, formerly of Kentncky. is now permanently lo- cated at Butler. Mr. T. owns a large tract of land near the city. He expects to trim up the woods an i lay out a park soon. —Mr. John Chaney has justreturn- tends to make Butler his future home, The queen city gets away with all heen gone, so he says. ette county, Missouri, is im the city prospecting. Mr. M. was once a resi- rest who have left we think would like to be back among us. —cC. F. Burns lett to-day, Tues- day, tor his old home in Ohio. Mr. Burns will visit New York and Philadelphia during his absence and lay ina large stock of spring goods tor the Factory Store in this city. —Mr. Felix Robinson, who came from Illinois a short time ago to But- ler, left this morning for the sucker State to bring his wife out. He will in the tuture make the queen city of the Southwest his home. Come on, Mr. Robinson, glad to have you. —Mr. J. M. Wichoff. a former resident of Butler, but now of Wel- lington, Kansas, was in the city on last Saturday evening. Several years have elapsed since Mr. W. was in the queen city. He says its grewth and get up are most wondertul, and so it is. —Mr. Dell Cobb has purchased Frank Eldridge’s interest in the Rick Hill Gazette and is now the sole pro- prietor. We extend our best wishes to Dell. He is a clever young gen- tleman and is deserving of success. He paid the Trugs people a visi on Saturday last. We were glad to meet him. Shake Dell. Shake. —Capt. Holley Nichols was in the city on Saturday last, and says the wild ducks in great swarms about to eat up all the unshucked corn in his neighborhood. That’sa new racket for the ducks. We knew they were pretty good on the swim, but didn’t know before that they bring down a few of the feathered tribe. A temale who is troubled with cold feet palpitation of the heart, monthly sup- pression or excesses, will find a prompt and reliable cure in the use ef English Female Bitters. As a female regulator, it acts like a charm. 12-2 with a handsome easel shaped nickie | | few dz he well known Michigan Stove Co., | falo. | ciated, | A ; use to him. It is something highly appre- as itis of daily and hourly 1 OF medici e, come the young Those trying to break up the banetul , habit of intemperance will experience great benefit from the use of Leis’Dan- delion Tome. it tores tue brain, | stom: and liver to I thy action and } Ss rengthens will power. There is nothing that so quickly eftace the ra- vages of a long course of debauchery. It is reemmended by many leadjng temper- ane advocates both east and west. 11-4 turday evening last. | He reports the ' meeting to have been an interesting | ed from Kentucky, and says he in- | i the places he has seen since he has | —Mr. John Masterson of Lafay- ; dent of Bates cousty, and like all the ' THE DAY OF REST. | And Surely it Was so Observed Sunday in Butler. Churches and Sunday Schools Sparse- ly Attended. Owi:g to the Severe Storm—Sleet Ang Ice Everywhere. Sunday in Butler wae quiet day. The churches vine services were hel! tended by the larger part of cach congregation, did not require ushers str the visitors, and the to seat corner good-box patrons was sor thing unseen during the entire day. : The most devoted Christian would have a very fair excuse for not ting in an appearance at the usual | public wors on such place ot days and many of them, too, will have to resort to that 2 } for their non-attendar | the Sabbath. t church on | q | AT THE DACOT.A ST. M. E. CHUCH. i . 5 The pastor pres i ing from Gal. 6, 7. **Be not deceiv- ed, God is not mocked: for whatso- Lever a man soweth, that shall he also | reap"? At the cle of _ tt cS | Mrs. Ferguson ncamp, j | united with the churc o have ! noon there was t owing to the rain regation | 1 aid occasion. ever, a short servic prayer appropriate to the | At night a small congregation ae- | sembled at the church, and Riley i | Hepler was baptized and he and two } others were received into the church. There have been 15 accessions to the church during the me g und 20 since Mr. Wood took charge of it. The Sunday school num! rs scholars. | OHIO st. i At the Ohio St. church Rev. Criss | spoke in the morning from Isai 54th | chap. 2nd and 3rd verses—-Topic | “Church Extension.” was unusually large for so gloomy a M. E. CHURCH, His audience for both Mr. Criss and his congrega- tien. The S about 50 puptls. Tbeen # union service of the Presby- udav school numbered There was to have terian aud Methodist denominations i at night, but owing to the unfavora- H } ble weather none was held. Hence] there was no services of any kind at | either of those churches in the eve- ning. i PRESBYTERIAN CHUCH. | A. L. McBride & Co. to Dan. F. Beegle with the best of recommendations as a} se Alexandre | the 1 | market, we here give a cut of genuine an apology | yrand New lot, 2 to 6 buttons just in. } please call and exan.ine Sun- | lowest figures. { was small and the programme was | Store. not carried out There was, how- ! quality. Factory | tory Store, or good logs. can Bible Society will call at Factory store and get them at cost of manutac- turing. ahi ses | ter, eggs, day, which speaks well enough alike | \otatoes, parsnips, ete. at and public generally to our new ad of | boots and shes. | assure satisfaction in goeds amd prices. ‘ard of Thanks. Having sold my interest in the firm of | who is weil known * citizens, and comes asant Hiil Mo. 1s of our lead tleman of ability etc., ete. I wish to | thanks toall my old custom- | eir liberal patronage in the past | & LE rend the new firm as worthy of | } veir liberal patronage in the future. : James RIppLe- Feb, 21st, 1832.* | i i | | | | | | | Kid Gloves HAVE NO EQUAL. CASH HOUSE | —oF— << Wedailles >> er 20 (Se Lecanite) os ME & 3 Y q Ladies agains} on the -\nd to guard our customers SPURIOUS articles many McClintock & Burns. Foster Kid Gloves at the Factory Store. McClintock & Burns Gent’s and Youth's, Hats and Caps at Call before purchasing. McClintock & Son. Try the Butler scoured jeans at Factory Ithas no equal tor weight and Bleached and Brown Muslins at the Store as low as the lowest and > inisrepresentation as to brand. McChantock & Burns. Ladies, tor Kid Gloves call at the Fac- McClintock & Burns. Logs Wanted, Lumber Cheap. | I will pay 75 cents per hundred teet Pill bills on short notice. aw tor 60 cents per hundred and for half my old stand on the Miami. 45-tf HG. ‘thomas. Bible Depositery. Parties wanting Bibles of the Ameri- Will pay highest market price for but- dressed chickems, onion sets, 233-2t-12-1t Ba gley & Gipson's. We call the attention of our customers Give usa call and we Badgley & Gipson. 233-2t-12-1t Green apples at Badgley & Gipeon's. 233-2t-ra-it Just received afresh barrel of kraut at Badgley & Gipeon’s. 233-2t-1d-it were so big on corn eating To your ; towling pieces, ye Nimrods, and } and hands, pain in the iide and back, , Qur editor’s desk is now decorated | plated calender holder, received a | ys ago with compliments from | t i Seapape } | located at Detroit, Chicago and Buf- Rev. Newton occupied his regular } Hathadcal Silbs green cottee for $1.00 at e had a} 233-2t-124t Badgley & Gipson’s. | place in the forenocn. very good house, not se large as usual | as, The Sunday school like all There was | an interesting feature conneeted with | the Sabbath school however, which was the opening of their new Libra- ry of about two hundred volumes. of course. We will sell you a sulky plow and guaran- tee itto run as light as a walking plow of the same size, or give it to you. rat Hahn & Co. the rest, was small. Farmitg implements and seeds of all kinds at fratt] Hahn & Co's. All goods sold at & profit t2tr BAPTIST CHURCH. | { Hahn & Co. Rev, Brown, who has been abscut meeting at Change of Firm. conducting a. revival Montrose, Henry- county, returned | ed the last of the week and addressed | his people on Sunday morning in a | has this dav disposed of his interest in the place of said James Riddle in_said brief sernion, and a talk at night.— | gm. A. Meee | His hearers were not numerous.— } As. RIDDLE. { Feb 224-12-1t The Sabbath school in the morning ; ee s numbered 59- i FARM FOR SALE H EPISCOPAL CHURCH. I will sell my tarm situated six miles 2 ee EP aes. outheast of Butler, containing 120 acr Rev. Brittain of Nevada, Episco- ' a bargain, it applied for soon. pal minister, occupied the pulpit of | Renee that denommation, it being his regu- | _CookIMg stoves—the very best ; market. Linware b In the the quantity, large lar appointment here, He preached | or small: all very cheap. both morning and nignt to a very ‘air mbt... 5... , Naha &£o- house. The Sabbath school was | _ Dr. Scott he turn from New York in + siaali. Rev Brittain left to-day noon avis e city pee ED: ease: Office in Palace Tfotel for home. o3t CHRI®TIAN CHURCH. n {Wie were wut Ve were nin acres, four vo houses, wells, two isfactory report three chnre Notice to Debtors my and went business interests lied tice to all wh as bad as the weather w: A busi- ' ness meeting of the Association will be held at the Christian church te- | morrow night, Tuesday. i3-2t Look here. ye farmers ot Bates county. | Notice is hereby given that James Rid- | dle of of the firm of A. L. McBride & Co. | the same to Daniel F. Beegle, who takes ; eo ge pneC eeere 00 9 NILUVNW 'S } { | | | A.S.Martin & Co) a aocy Dep 7 tthes in Staple « Goode, Notions, Misinery, Ladiae i Furnishing Goods, Cloaks, Sain. | Carpets, Groeeriv~ and Queen- ware 7 every boils we and save money by sod . S. Martin& Co.